The Gross Domestic Products of both account for an estimated US$725.583billion and when this figure is measured against Africa’s total GDP of US$2.2trillion, Nigeria and South Africa alone holds about 30% of the continent’s GDP. Succinctly, out of every ten dollars spent in Africa, about three of those flow from and between the two countries.
Nigerians cannot be boxed; they are disruptors of a system for good. They know how to trade; they know how to find the missing links in any economic chain. They have a never-say-die spirit. While South African businesses are anchored on innovations, Nigerians are creative and adventurous and both approaches are relevant to the movement of goods and services in the continent.
Worse still, is the subliminal message that other nationalities but Nigerians cannot be tolerated. The current attacks in Pretoria started because a group of taxi drivers erroneously believed that a Nigerian drug dealer had killed one of their members. It turned out to be a Tanzanian that killed the South African.
I was asked to reach out to other Ogonis and Nigerians in the city: they should come over to the Community House for shelter; the activists brought more food items to cater for the group that had taken refuge in the building. The attacks intensified and within 72 hours, a crowd of Nigerians and other African nationals had converged in the premises. I was asked to put together a report. Two reports were written, one on the situation as it affected different nationals.
At a time that the host country was busy demonising Nigerians, Mrs. Ezekwesili used the platform to defend us. If I were part of the Nigerian government, I would ignore partisan differences and congratulate her for leveraging on her personal profile to state the case of Nigerians. It would have been more productive if the Nigerian government had reached out to her to speak in stronger voice.
Their plan had two components, namely; providing community services and, building a socio-economic active community. They told their compatriots that the first part was not enough to change the narrative around Nigerians. Their approach was to bring together Nigerian entrepreneurs through crowd-funding.
He argued that the organization does not need to follow the route of socio-economic involvement. He believed that the plan was too idealistic for an “ordinary community” organisation. He told people that none of the ten point agenda which Kedi-Ewroh and his team developed to position Nigerian entrepreneurs was necessary.
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